Chapter 440: Blizzard is born

Some people may wonder why founders such as Mike Mowmi would sell 100% of Blizzard so easily, is this a bit exaggerated and unrealistic.

The fact is that this is not an exaggeration at all, because historically, in January 1994, after the release of Warcraft 1, the channel provider responsible for the sale of World of Warcraft saw the products of Warcraft 1 again, and was shocked.

So it cost $6.4 million to buy 100% of the entire Blizzard shares.

Later, the distributor itself was acquired by a French entertainment group, and then the entertainment group was acquired by Vidivan, and finally Blizzard was sold by Vidiwang to Activision and renamed Activision Blizzard.

Therefore, Blizzard can be said to have been in the stage of being sold, and the two founders of Blizzard have been serving as president and vice president successively, and basically have not changed.

The same situation is also the future Riot Company, and there may be many people who don't know that Riot is actually a Chinese company, because 99% of Riot's shares were bought by Tencent.

When Tencent bought Riot, it also promised that unless the founders did not do it, the control of the company would be handed over to the two founders forever, and Tencent would only be responsible for the investment.

This is also one of the characteristics of the behavior of the United States business, that is, even if the businessmen of the United States buy the entire company, they will generally not move the founder of the company, but will let the founder stay as much as possible, because basically the founder is the best controller of the company.

After Huaxia's companies complete the acquisition, their favorite thing to do is to kick out the founders.

For example, Eleme, such as Didi, such as ...... Anyway, many well-known companies, their founders have basically been kicked out. Among all the big capitals in Huaxia, Alibaba likes to do such things the most.

Because of Alibaba's desire for control engraved in its bones, it must firmly control all the acquired companies in its hands, so those founders who have great prestige within the company, and at the same time are very disobedient and have their own ideas, will naturally be kicked out.

Hawkers, but then again, Boss Jia is actually a person with a strong desire to control, if it weren't for knowing in advance that the two founders of Blizzard were born with an indisputable temperament, and they were only in charge of game development, Boss Jia wouldn't dare to be so decisive to hand over the research and development rights of the game to these two founders.

Okay, let's get down to business, Boss Jia thought that after signing the contract, he could pat his ass and leave, but Mike Mo Huaimi kept Jia Yapeng vigorously, and then asked Jia Yapeng to give him advice to see what else needed to be modified in World of Warcraft 1.

The reason why Mike Mowaimi can't wait for Boss Jia to give advice is because Boss Jia is the founder of Pokemon, and Mike Mowaimi now admires Pokemon games, and in his eyes, Boss Jia is one of the most awesome gamers in the world.

In fact, this is also the case, after all, Boss Jia has already played all the games in the next 30 years, and proposing some shortcomings and improvement plans is not as simple as playing.

However, Boss Jia will not make too many changes, otherwise there will be a lot of things that are not in line with the times, and it will be bad when the time comes.

So after playing seriously a few times, Boss Jia put forward some modifications, such as the operation method.

Because the operation method of Warcraft 1 was learned from the hills, it was too anti-human, and it was completely different from the operation method of Warcraft in later generations, so Boss Jia gave all the basic operation methods of later generations.

At first, Mike Mowami was a little skeptical about this way of operating, but after getting started, Mike Mowami was surprised to find that the degree of mastery was several times easier, even players with handicapped hands were able to operate very smoothly, and all the operation methods were recorded and modified on the spot.

In addition to the way it works, there are also changes to the fog of war.

The original Warcraft 1 fog of war is the same as the fog of war in Red Alert 2, although it is also black at the beginning, but as long as the map is detected, then the map will always be lit up, and you can clearly see all the battles that take place on the map.

At Boss Jia's suggestion, the fog of war has changed to the appearance of the future, that is, the map is black at the beginning, and the specific terrain of the map can be seen after seeing the map, but each unit has a line of sight, and once the unit leaves, the map will be dark again.

These changes are very small, but in the eyes of Mike Mohuaimi, it is simply an epoch-making change, and Mike Mohuaimi's gaze when he looks at Jia Yapeng later is the same as looking at his lover, which makes Boss Jia creepy.

"By the way, one last thing!" Boss Jia suddenly thought of something and said, "Mike, do you think the company's current name of silicon and nerve bonds should be modified?" ”

"That's right, boss, I wanted to change this name a long time ago!" When Mike Mowami heard this, he couldn't help but laugh at once, "All the employees said that our name was terrible, because 99% of people couldn't pronounce the word nerve key correctly!" ”

"And what name are you going to change?" Boss Jia asked, in fact, there is no need for Mike Mohuaimi to say, Boss Jia also knows that the new name in Mike Mohuaimi's heart must be called Blizzard.

"Well, I've already thought of a new name, and I've decided to change the name of the company to Chaos Studios!" Mike Mo Huaimi said loudly, and Boss Jia almost choked on a mouthful of water in his throat.

"What do you say? Mayhem Studios? Boss Jia couldn't help but ask again?

"Yes, boss, are you not happy with the name?" Mike Mo Huaimi looked at Boss Jia with some concern, this is a new name that he came up with after thinking hard for many months, he is personally very satisfied, if Boss Jia does not agree, it will be troublesome.

"It's okay! I have no opinion! Boss Jia shook his head, and at the same time sighed in his heart, he instigated butterfly wings again, so that he didn't even have the name Blizzard.

At the same time, Boss Jia is still a little worried about whether many classic games in the future will also be fanned by his butterfly wings.

But it doesn't matter, if the future is really gone, then Boss Jia himself will order Blizzard to create one, it's not a big deal.

It's just that a few days later, Boss Jia, who had returned to New York, suddenly received a call from Mike Mohuaimi, who told Boss Jia very sadly that when they applied for the registration of the trademark Chaos, they found that it had been registered by other game companies, and they couldn't use the new name Chaos.

So Mike Mowmi said that it would be better to ask the chairman to personally choose a name for the new company.

"Then call it Blizzard!" Boss Jia said with a smile.